This page is a listing of archived materials presented as part of my active work in digital curation and outreach to participating communities:

2010

• November 4, 2010 – AMIA/IASA 2010 • Wrappers and Codecs: A Survey of Selection Strategies
  A discussion of digital preservation container formats and codecs used by a few leading organizations on this front, including Library of Congress and Stanford University. Organized by Chris Lacinack of Media Preservation Solutions, and co-presented alongside Carl Fleischhauer of LoC and Hannah Frost at Stanford.

2009:

• October 30, 2009 – NJVid Technical Objectives Briefing, as presented at the 2009 MARAC Conference in Jersey City, NJ
• October 30, 2009 – White paper: “The Case for Large File Support in FEDORA/Duraspace Object Management Architectures” (101KB, PDF File)Description here.
• August 28, 2009 – Archival Master – an RUcore case study (PDF)
  Submitted for inclusion to FEDORA Preservation wiki.  Co-authored with Ron Jantz, Digital Library Architect, Rutgers University Libraries.
• August 20, 2009 – Technical Overview: NJVid/RUcore video platform
  Updates existing video codec standards and describes differences between open content and commercial videos.
• August 17, 2009 – Software Release Notes for RUcore 5.0
  Co-authored with Jeffery Triggs and Sho Nakagama
• August 7, 2009 – “Standard Codecs and Settings for Presentation Formats and Preservation Datastreams In the NJVid Portal, and RUcore Platform” (PDF) Latest revision of a standards document for archiving and delivering video content in streaming formats, as applied to NJVid.
• June 19, 2009 – NJVID: Discussion of Technical Underpinnings.
  Same visual format as UMDNJ, however this presentation focuses more on FEDORA, how it fits into our repository technology, and its benefits and challenges.  Development timeline updated.
• April 30, 2009: Digital Curation – Preserving the History of the Here and Now.
  Brown bag presentation on the field of digital curation, basic concepts and challenges faced in preserving digital objects.
• April 28, 2009: NJVid: A Community Video Architecure based on Open Source Technologies.
  Presented at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Digital Storage Architecture Group.

2008:

• April 23, 2008: NJVID Presentation, Internet2 Spring Member Meeting.
  Archive on the Internet2 website of the initial pre-launch presentation of the NJVid project, including goals and proposed architecture.

2007:

• November 2007: Rutgers SCILS Internet Technology Initiative Undergraduate Course.
  Archive of supporting materials in a talk I gave to students in this course.

The following presentations are older, and may reference specifications that require updating to reflect advances, learned lessons and present technologies.  Still, some of the information remains useful, and of course, these materials also have some historical significance.

• A Brief Overview of Digitizing Techniques. Introductory slide show that accompanied a daylong “bootcamp” for librarians, archivists and curators who were just getting involved in digitziation for the first time.  Presented October 2006.
• Digital imaging Basics and Standards (PDF).  A primer for digitization policies, one of the first documents created as part of our digital repository initiative at Rutgers University Libraries.  Hardware specs require updating.